{"id":880260,"date":"2026-10-13T00:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880260\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T00:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:26:09","slug":"r-j-mitte-dead-breaking-bad-actor-was-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880260\/","title":{"rendered":"R.J. Mitte Dead: ‘Breaking Bad\u2019 Actor Was 34"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tR.J. Mitte, the actor and disability rights advocate who portrayed Walter White Jr., the son of Bryan Cranston\u2019s character, on Breaking Bad<\/a>, has died. He was 34.<\/p>\n

\n\tMitte died Monday in Brownsville, Texas, his reps announced. \u201cIt is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of beloved actor, philanthropist and passionate disability rights advocate R.J. Mitte,\u201d they said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tNo cause of death was revealed, but TMZ reported<\/a> that he died by suicide, according to a county official.<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn on Aug. 21, 1992, and raised by adopted parents in Jackson, Mississippi, Roy Frank Mitte III was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when he was 3, and he needed leg braces and crutches growing up. He came to Hollywood in 2006 \u2014 his younger sister, Lacianne, had gotten a job offer to work in film production \u2014 and appeared uncredited a year later on an episode of Hannah Montana.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe then played Walter \u201cFlynn\u201d White Jr. on 56 episodes of Breaking Bad over all five seasons of the AMC drama from 2008-13, drawing on his real-life experience.<\/p>\n

\n\tJust days ago, Mitte made an appearance<\/a> on The Joe Vulpis Podcast, where he reflected on his Breaking Bad years.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy character was written with someone with cerebral palsy. This was from the beginning, that was always the case,\u201d he said. \u201cWalt Jr. was based on a real person, a friend of (Breaking Bad creator) Vince Gilligan in college who had cerebral palsy, who used forearm crutches and sometime after passed away. So it really felt real playing this character and getting into the groove with this character.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMitte also praised Cranston and Anna Gunn, who played his mom, Skyler White, on the series.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBryan and Anna, they have such a wealth of knowledge and had been working in the industry for many years at the time and even more now,\u201d he recalled. \u201cAnd so every day, as far as it being a dark show having heavy themes, everything was very light-hearted, even in between takes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMitte later appeared on the third season of the ABC Family\/Freeform drama Switched at Birth in 2014 as Campbell Bingman<\/a>, a pre-med student paralyzed from a snowboarding accident who uses a wheelchair, and he voiced the Mind Master on the Netflix animated series The Guardians of Justice in 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis latest project, the dark romantic thriller Cassi, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last month. In the film from Josh Webber, he plays a lonely funeral-home worker who falls for a waitress (Dove Cameron) as they\u2019re drawn into a deadly revenge plot.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis big-screen r\u00e9sum\u00e9 included House of Last Things (2013), Who\u2019s Driving Doug (2016), Time Share (2018), Standing Up for Sunny (2019), The Oak Room (2020), Triumph (2021) and Talking to Strangers (2026).<\/p>\n

\n\tOffscreen, \u201cMitte built a platform on disability awareness and inclusion,\u201d his reps said. \u201cBeyond entertaining friends and family around the world, he served as an ambassador for United Cerebral Palsy and Shriners Children\u2019s. He also served as president of The Mitte Foundation, supporting philanthropic efforts and community initiatives while using his platform to challenge stereotypes and promote greater representation for people with disabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the 2013 Media Access Awards, he received the SAG-AFTRA Harold Russell Award for his portrayal of Walt Jr.<\/p>\n

\n\tSurvivors include his sister, his mother and his grandmother, Anita.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn October 2025, he got engaged to longtime friend Kennedy Suarez. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to have found my person, my partner in life who makes me want to be better, no matter what we\u2019re doing,\u201d he told<\/a> People. \u201cKennedy is my everything, and I can\u2019t wait to officially start our life together and see what adventures life takes us on next.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\tHilary Lewis contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"R.J. Mitte, the actor and disability rights advocate who portrayed Walter White Jr., the son of Bryan Cranston\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[52698,236,88,10756],"class_list":["post-880260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-breaking-bad","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}